[Tinyos-help] link between tossimpacketc.send and amsend.send

[Greg Hackmann]

Vijayant Bhatnagar wrote:
> Hi,
> I need some help to figure out what is the relation between amsend.send
> and tossimpacketc.send. In tutorial 3 of tinyos 2-x, RadioCountToLed
> sends a packet using AMSend.send then how do i use tossimpacketc.send 
> ?I am really confused.
> 
> Any help appreciated.
> 
> Thanks,
> Vijayant

When TOSSIM is enabled, ActiveMessageC's AMSend interface is passed
through to the TossimActiveMessageP component.  TossimActiveMessageP
implements AMSend.send() by doing some bookkeeping on the packet header
and then calling TossimPacketModel.send() on TossimPacketModelC.  Since
TossimPacketModelC expects TossimActiveMessageP to set up the packet
headers properly, you should avoid invoking the TossimPacketModel.send()
command directly and use ActiveMessageC's AMSend interface instead.

Greg Hackmann